Costa Rican Immersion Experience

Join Common Ground International for a 15 day Intensive Spanish Immersion Seminar for health care professionals in beautiful Costa Rica!

Program Description | Education Goals | Program Details

Program Description:

Immerse yourself in the Spanish language and Costa Rican culture while attending 20 hours of intensive Medical Spanish courses. You will live with a Costa Rican family and practice your new medical Spanish language skills at hospital visits and community service projects. This amazing trip is not all work; you will also travel to beaches, volcanoes and rainforests in Costa Rica!

• After a full day of clinic work and classes, get to know your new Costa Rican family, in your week long home-stay.
• Experience the authentic Costa Rican lifestyle.
• Improve your language skills through intensive medical Spanish courses and by observing and practicing medicine in local clinics and hospitals.
• Practice your new language skills while providing primary care to the poor in the communities of La Carpio and Puente los Anonos.
• Work with La Paz del Dial, a local Catholic Mission focused on rehabilitating the addicted in San Jose.
• Relax on the beach and hike the rainforest to see more of the beautiful country.
• Visit an active volcano and relax in the thermal pools at the base of Volcán Arenal at Tabacón Spa and Resort.
• In your free time, learn how to cook the typical foods "gallo pinto" and dance the traditional dances "salsa and meringue."

Educational Goals:

• 24 hour Spanish language immersion
• Attend Medical Spanish classes
• Provide Primary Care and Preventative Health Care Education in various contexts in Costa Rica
• Experience the authentic cultural experience by living with a local family
  

Registration has begun for the March 2009 trip to Costa Rica!

Program leader:
Leslie and Rory Foster, Common Ground International, LLC

Open to:
All health care professionals, students and their spouses

Cost per student:
$3,900 (includes airfare, private in country transportation, lodging, language school tuition and materials, guided tours, national park entrances, weekend excursions, and some group meals)
**Trip cost is an estimate based on previous years and is subject to change.

When:
Approx: March 11-25, 2009 (15 days total dates will solidify by Oct 1st).

Commitment deposit of $1,000.00 due on October 1st, 2008. Payment schedule for balance will be available once committed.

Call (303) 684-5557 / 1 (888) 879-2575 or e-mail info@commongroundinternational.com for questions or more information.